Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Two-terminal floating-gate memory with van der Waals heterostructures for ultrahigh on/off ratio

  • Quoc An Vu,
  • Yong Seon Shin,
  • Young Rae Kim,
  • Van Luan Nguyen,
  • Won Tae Kang,
  • Hyun Kim,
  • Dinh Hoa Luong,
  • Il Min Lee,
  • Kiyoung Lee,
  • Dong-Su Ko,
  • Jinseong Heo,
  • Seongjun Park,
  • Young Hee Lee,
  • Woo Jong Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12725
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Traditional non-volatile memories suffer from poor scalability in the vertical direction due to the use of a bulky oxide layer. Here, the authors develop a tunnelling random access memory using a vertical heterostructure composed of atomically thin molybdenum disulfide, boron nitride and graphene.